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By Beth Musselwhite, REINSURANCE NEWS Consumer Watchdog opposes Californian Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s proposal to allow insurance companies to use black-box catastrophe…
May 2, 2024
By Staff Reporters, KQED-FM – San Francisco, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.
Apr 29, 2024
By Megan Fan Munce, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/allstate-home-insurance-19419045.php One of California’s largest home insurers (opens in new tab) says it plans to resume writing…
Apr 25, 2024
By Laurence Darmiento, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-04-24/consumer-advocates-insurance-industry-clash-at-homeowners-insurance-crisis-hearing The fault lines running through California’s spiraling homeowners insurance crisis were on display Tuesday at…
Apr 25, 2024
By Terry Gangcuangco, INSURANCE BUSINESS https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/catastrophe/consumer-watchdog-on-what-will-not-solve-californias-insurance-crisis-486434.aspx Consumer Watchdog has expressed strong opposition against Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s proposed changes in California. In the…
Apr 24, 2024
By Dan Bacher, ELK GROVE NEWS https://www.elkgrovenews.net/2024/04/new-oil-drilling-permit-approvals-fall.html Newsom’s regulators have issued a total of 15,940 well permits of all types since he…
Apr 21, 2024
By Stephen Hobbs, SACRAMENTO BEE https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article286759155.html In 2022, state Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced he would force companies to offer discounts to…
Apr 18, 2024
By City News Service, EPOCH TIMES https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-unseals-warrants-in-case-of-botched-ladwp-billing-5631503 LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A Los Angeles federal judge issued a final order today on…
Apr 17, 2024
By Dakota Smith, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-12/documents-unsealed-city-attorney-dwp-corruption More than 1,000 pages of confidential documents from a federal criminal investigation into the Los…
Apr 12, 2024
Group urges the insurance commissioner to hold companies accountable By Kenneth Araullo, INSURANCE BUSINESS https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/environmental/watchdog-reiterates-call-for-fossil-fuel-disclosure-from-insurers-484613.aspx Consumer Watchdog has called for Insurance Commissioner Ricardo…
Apr 10, 2024
By Jeremia Kimelman, CALMATTERS
Apr 10, 2024
By Ruben Vives, LA TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-10/westside-l-a-hit-hard-as-state-farm-cancels-home-insurance Thousands of Californians who won’t see their home insurance renewed by State Farm this summer are…
Apr 10, 2024
By BLANCA BEGERT and CAMILLE VON KAENEL, POLITICO https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-climate/2024/04/09/laras-forced-marriage-with-insurers-00151420 HOME FIRES BURNING: In Sacramento, Ricardo Lara is the state’s insurance commissioner who hasn’t yet stopped an exodus of…
Apr 9, 2024
By Staff Reporters, KCBS-AM – San Francisco, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.
Apr 9, 2024
By JP Crumrine, INSURANCE NEWSNET Despite efforts by the state’s Department of Insurance (DOI) to revise the rate making policies in California,…
Apr 3, 2024
By Mike Pangilinan, INSURANCE BUSINESS https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/property/consumer-watchdog-wants-mandatory-coverage-for-wildfiresafe-homes-483241.aspx A consumer advocacy group in California is pushing for reforms that would require insurance companies to…
Apr 1, 2024
Consumer Watchdog says, what you can do if you’ve been caught up in this is you can freeze your credit with the…
Apr 1, 2024
By Emily Alpert Reyes, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2024-03-31/california-cosmetic-surgery Inside a clinic wedged next to a smoke shop in a South Los Angeles…
Mar 31, 2024